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How did you install?
Each program separately?
Using apt-get from command line?
Using tasksel?
When you open your browser in localhost and enter index.html, do yo get the IT WORKS page for Apache?
Do you see output from the info.php file?
PhpAdmin is a program to administer LAMP.

Take a look at the link below which explains setting up LAMP on Ubuntu 11.04 and compare it to what you did.

I don't know your apache configuration, usualy the files for apache are stored @ /var/www
This configuration should be saved in the folder: "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled"
The files index.* are the standard names which will be used if no special file is requested by the browser.

If there's not the error 404 but the file won't stop loading it's probably a script that never finishes.
Meaning there may be a loop that can't finish.
My suggestion is to test the web-server with a simple script like:

I don't know your apache configuration, usualy the files for apache are stored @ /var/www
This configuration should be saved in the folder: "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled"
The files index.* are the standard names which will be used if no special file is requested by the browser.

If there's not the error 404 but the file won't stop loading it's probably a script that never finishes.
Meaning there may be a loop that can't finish.
My suggestion is to test the web-server with a simple script like:

PHP Code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I changed my index.html file to the code you supplied me. It doesn't give any error, doesn't attempt to download anything, and/or etc. It just gives me a blank white page.

I was mistaken. It's still attempting to download the file rather than display it.